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If you see the “Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized BIOS RAID sets. Ignoring disk sda” error message during OS installation, then you need to remove the raid metadata the “classic” way:

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Intrusions can take place from both authorized (insiders) and unauthorized (outsiders) users. My personal experience shows that unhappy user can damage the system, especially when they have a shell access. Some users are little smart and removes history file (such as ~/.bash_history) but you can monitor all user executed commands.It is recommended that you log user activity using process accounting. Process accounting allows you to view every command executed by a user including CPU and memory time.

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Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. It is pretty easy to configure and even easier to use. It comes with a simple web server to monitor statuses of the alerts you set (with basic HTTP authentication). On Monit W’k’ you can find configuration examples for different services. Just in case you need a configuration example for Memcached instances, here is what you need.

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Monit is a nice tool, it lets you monitor daemons like apache and mysql, and not only sends you alerts when these services fail but also it automagically restarts those services. But I have always faced problem with having monit properly detect whether mysql is running or not. The default monit config file /etc/monit/monitrc has this entry for mysql:

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If you allow SSH access to your server, there are some simple steps you can take to restrict access and protect yourself from brute force attacks. Two of my favorite scripts to do this are Advanced Policy Firewall coupled with Brute Force Detection, both by R-FX Networks.